Car-fare holder



(No Model.)

G; J. FIEDLER & A. 0. PROHL. GAR FARE HOLDER.

o. 504,026. Patented Aug. 29,1893;

UNITED STATES.

GEORGE J. FIEDLER AND ALBERT C. PROHL, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

PATENT OFFICE.

CAR-FARE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 504,026, dated August 29, 1893.

Application filed May 8, 1893- Serial No. 473,456. (No model.)

liarities of construction and combination of' parts, as will be fullyset forth hereinafter and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a vertical central section through ourimproved device, on the line 11 of Fig. 2 and with the contents of thecasing shown in full line. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig.1, showing the inner side of one of the heads of the device, with thecontents removed. Fig. 3 is a side elevation. Fig. 4 is a transversesection on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a vertical section, on theline 55 of Fig. 1.

The car-fares referred to are thin round flat checks usually of metal,though sometimes of celluloid, wood, paper, and other materials, stampedor otherwise marked with their face value, and from their similarity tosmall current coins these have become somewhat of a nuisance whencarried loosely in the pockets, or in a purse, with such coins, and toobviate this objection, and provide a suitable separate holder for thesaid car fares, as well as to provide a convenient means for ejectingthe same, one at a time, from said holder, as wanted for-use, ourinvention has been devised.

A represents a cylindrical shell, provided with exterior screw-threads,a, at one end.

B is a screw-cap having interior screw-V,

erably with twenty-five graduations, each placed the distance apartcorresponding to the thickness of one of the car-fare checks 6.

F is a spiral spring, within the casing, one end of said spring restingagainst the inner surface of the screw-cap 13, while the other end ofthe spring presses against the car-fare checks 6, and terminates in theprojecting point f fitting between the walls of the guideslot D, asshown. The inner face of the head 0 is formed with a groove 9 for thereception of a slideH, said slide having a lug or lip h at its rear end,of a height or projection just equal to the thickness of one of saidfare checks, the slide itself coming flush with the inner face of thehead 0 and just on a line with the bottom of the slot 1). I is a slotthrough said head Gin the central longitudinal line of the groove g and'6 is a screw, whose shank passes through the slot I and into the saidslide H.

The operation of our device will be readily understood from theforegoing description of its construction, in connection with theaccompanying drawings. To fill the device, the screw-cap B is unscrewedand the spring F removed. The car-fare checks 6 are then placed withinthe casing, the slide H having first been drawn back into the positionshown in Fig. 1, with the lip h against the inner wall of the shell A.The spring F is then replaced, with its point f inserted in the slot D,and the cap B screwed to place, compressing the said spring thereby.When it is desired to use one of the car-fare checks the slide H ispushed outward, by means of the screw i thereby forcing the check 6resting upon said slide out through or partly through the slot 1), whereit can be readily grasped, and secured, even if the users hand iscovered by a glove or mitten, and the slide H can then be quickly pulledback, and the spring F will force another check into position forsubsequent ej ectment, but, by its force, safely keep it within the viceat any time. The point f of the spring acts as an indicator to show theposition of the last check within the holder, and, in concasing,irrespective of the position of the denection with the scale (I, thenumber of checks remaining therein, at all times, and in addition servesto guide the spring, so that it will always exert its pressure in adirect line, without binding or cramping.

While primarily designed for oarfare checks it is obvious that ourdevice is equally well adapted for the storage and convenient ejectmentof coins, counters, or anyother analogous articles.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A holder for ear-fare checks and analogous articles, comprising acasing consisting of a shell having two heads, one of said heads beingdetachable and one of the heads being slotted, said shell having atransverse slot adjacent to one of said heads and a longitudinal slot, aslide having a lip or projection on one end, and an operating shankpassing through the slot in the head, and a spring within said casinghaving one end thereof fitting between the walls of the longitudinalslot in the shell, substantially as set forth.

2. A holder for car-fare checks and analogous articles, comprising acasing consisting of a shell having two heads, one of said heads beingdetachable and one of the heads being slotted, and grooved on its innerside, said shell having a transverse slot adjacent to one of said heads,and a longitudinal slot, and a graduated and numbered scale on its outersurface adjacent to said longitudinal slot, a slide fitting in thegroove in the head and having a lip or projection on one end, and anoperating shank passing through the slot in the head, and a spiralspring within said casing having one end thereof fitting between thewalls of the longitudinal slot in the shell, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands,at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, in thepresence of two witnesses.

GEORGE J. FIEDLER. ALBERT G. PROFIL. \Vitnesses:

H. G. UNDERWOOD, O. W. Soorr.

